I self-published my book. Here’s how.

Nancy Bauer
Nov 4 · 11 min read

This morning I’m waiting for the call to tell me my book is 30 minutes out. Books, I should say. Four thousand of them, packed into 160 boxes of 25 each, about 2700 pounds total.

The poundage is significant because I’ll meet the truck driver at my storage facility…

Truck delivering copies of the Virginia Wine Travel Journal.
Truck delivering copies of the Virginia Wine Travel Journal.

…and then he’ll use a magical manual forklift to transfer the four pallets of shrink-wrapped books to the…

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Nancy Bauer

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Nancy Bauer writes HurryUpGirl.com, featuring Quests and travel for midlife women. She also writes about travel at VirginiaWineInMyPocket.com

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